page_title: 2018 in the United States
section_title: June
hierarchical_section_title: 2018 in the United States / Deaths / June
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Vader sur un ring de catch en 2014.
context_page_description: This is a list of events in the year 2018 in the United States.
context_section_description: June 1
  Eddy Clearwater, American musician and singer (b. 1935)
  Bob Clotworthy, American Hall of Fame diver (b. 1931)
  Andrew Massey, British-born American conductor (b. 1946)
  Sam Moore, American Bible publisher (b. 1929)
  William Edward Phipps, American actor (b. 1922)
  Rockin' Rebel, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
  Fred Van Dusen, American baseball player (b. 1937)
  June 2
  Mary Baumgartner, American baseball player (b. 1930)
  Paul D. Boyer, American biochemist (b. 1918)
  Bruce Kison, American baseball player (b. 1950)
  Nick Meglin, American magazine editor (b. 1935)
  Irving Sandler, American art critic (b. 1925)
  William Simmons, American anthropologist (b. 1938)
  C. C. Torbert Jr., American jurist (b. 1929)
  Bernard E. Trainor, American journalist and Marine Corps general (b. 1928)
  June 3
  Clarence Fountain, American singer, founder of The Blind Boys of Alabama (b. 1929)
  Frank Carlucci, American politician (b. 1930)
  Jerry Hopkins, American journalist (b. 1936)
  Johnnie Keyes, American pornographic actor (b. 1940)
  Kent McCray, American television producer (b. 1929)
  June 4
  Dwight Clark, American football player (b. 1957)
  Jeffrey Coy, American politician (b. 1951)
  Norman Edge, American jazz double-bassist (b. 1934)
  Mary Jane Fonder, 75, American convicted murderer (b. 1942)
  Georgann Johnson, American actress (b. 1926)
  Steve Kline, American baseball player (b. 1947)
  C. M. Newton, American college basketball coach and administrator (b. 1930)
  Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, American poet and musician (b. 1944)
  June 5 – Kate Spade, fashion designer (b. 1962)
  June 8 – Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef, author and television personality (b. 1956).
  June 9
  Joan Bernard Armstrong, American judge (b. 1941)
  Richard H. Bube, American physicist (b. 1928)
  Kristine Ciesinski, American opera singer (b. 1953)
  Murray Fromson, American journalist and professor (b. 1930)
  Crawford Gates, American composer and conductor (b. 1922)
  Lorraine Gordon, American jazz club owner (b. 1923)
  John Wesley Hanes III, American civil servant (b. 1925)
  Kenyatta Jones, American football player (b. 1979)
  Clemens Kalischer, American photojournalist (b. 1921)
  June 10
  Neal E. Boyd, American singer (b. 1975)
  Dorothy Cotton, American civil rights activist (b. 1930)
  Harold L. Dibble, American archaeologist (b. 1952)
  James Gips, American technologist (b. 1946)
  Tom McEwen, American drag racer (b. 1937)
  Edward Sadlowski, American labor activist (b. 1939)
  Christopher Stasheff, American author (b. 1944)
  June 11
  Wayne Dockery, American jazz double bassist (b. 1942)
  Larry Thomas, American political advisor (b. 1948)
  June 12
  Robert Alan Browne, American actor (b. 1932
  Keith Fahnhorst, American football player (b. 1952)
  Jack Laxer, American photographer (b. 1927)
  Al Meltzer, American sportscaster (b. 1929)
  June 13
  Anne Donovan, American basketball player and coach (b. 1962)
  D. J. Fontana, American musician (b. 1931)
  Tom Gear, American politician (b. 1949)
  J. Alex Haller, American pediatric surgeon (b. 1927)
  Ronald I. Meshbesher, American lawyer (b. 1933)
  Charles Vinci, American weightlifter (b. 1933)
  June 14
  Ed Roebuck, American baseball player (b. 1932)
  Mary K. Shell, American journalist and politician (b. 1927)
  Marta Weigle, American folklorist and anthropologist (b. 1945)
  June 15 – Matt "Guitar" Murphy, American blues guitarist (b. 1929)
  June 16 – Martin Bregman, American film producer (b. 1926)
  June 17
  Elizabeth Brackett, American television journalist (b. 1942)
  O. Timothy O'Meara, American mathematician (b. 1928)
  Rebecca Parris, American jazz singer (b. 1952)
  Aihud Pevsner, American physicist (b. 1926)
  Dutch Rennert, American baseball umpire (b. 1930)
  Stephen E. Robinson, American religious scholar (b. 1948)
  June 18
  Walter Bahr, American Hall of Fame soccer player (b. 1927)
  Big Van Vader, American professional wrestler and football player (b. 1955)
  Billy Connors, American baseball player (b. 1941)
  Barry McDaniel, American opera singer (b. 1930)
  Claude Ramsey, American politician (b. 1943)
  Billy Sammeth, American talent manager (b. 1951)
  Lawrence A. Skantze, 89, American military office
caption: Big Van Vader
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